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DESCRIPTION:Strike Debt is building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most
individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt
because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic
necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are
forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and
moral to resist it.\n\n\nCome get connected with SDBA’s projects!\n\n
Presenting debt and inequality related topics at forums, workshops and in
radio productions\n Promoting single-payer / Medicare for All to end the
plague of medical debt\n money bail reform and fighting modern day
debtors’ prisons and exploitative ticketing and fining schemes\n Tiny
Homes and other solutions for the homeless.\n Student debt resistance.
Check out the Debt Collective, our sister organization\n helping
out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting
against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk\n Working on
debarring US Banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal
contracts, and divesting from the Wall St. banks\n Promoting the concept
of Basic Income\n Advocating for Postal banking\n Organizing for public
banking in Oakland! We made the first steps happen… now there’s
a spinoff group\n Bring your own debt-related project!\n\nIf you are new
to Strike Debt and want to come early, meet one or two of us and get a
briefing on our projects before we dive into our agenda, email us at
strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com .\n\n\n Also check out our website,
our twitter feed, our radio segments and our Facebook page. Take a look
at our Public Banking website, Friends of the Public Bank of
Oakland.\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area is an offshoot of Occupy
Oakland and Strike Debt, itself an offshoot of Occupy Wall
Street.\n\n\nStrike Debt – Principles of Solidarity\nStrike Debt is
building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt
is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are
increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of
life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into
debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist
it.\n\nWe also oppose debt because it is an instrument of exploitation and
political domination. Debt is used to discipline us, deepen existing
inequalities, and reinforce racial, gendered, and other social hierarchies.
Every Strike Debt action is designed to weaken the institutions that seek
to divide us and benefit from our division. As an alternative to this
predatory system, Strike Debt advocates a just and sustainable economy,
based on mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.\n\nStrike Debt is
committed to the principles and tactics of political autonomy, direct
democracy, direct action, creative openness, a culture of solidarity, and
commitment to anti-oppressive language and conduct. We struggle for a world
without racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and all forms of
oppression.\n\nStrike Debt holds that we are all debtors, whether or not we
have personal loan agreements. Through the manipulation of sovereign and
municipal debt, the costs of speculator-driven crises are passed on to all
of us. Though different kinds of debt can affect the same household, they
are all interconnected, and so all household debtors have a common interest
in resisting.\n\nStrike Debt engages in public education about the
debt-system to counteract the self-serving myth that finance is too
complicated for laypersons to understand. In particular, it urges direct
action as a way of stopping the damage caused by the creditor class and
their enablers among elected government officials. Direct action empowers
those who participate in challenging the debt-system.\n\nStrike Debt holds
that we owe the financial institutions nothing, whereas, to our friends,
families and communities, we owe everything. In pursuing a long-term
strategy for national organizing around this principle, we pledge
international solidarity with the growing global movement against debt and
austerity.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/03/18806486.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Meeting: Debt Resistance is NOT Futile!
LOCATION:Omni Commons\n4799 Shattuck, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/03/18806486.php
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